Re: Websites for preview of 2009 Wrangler?

XS11E wrote:

> XS11E <xs11e@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> Will Honea <whonea@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>> I found some old photos when we cleaned the folks house out
>>> before we sold it.  One was of a couple of us standing in front
>>> of a Texaco station in Brownwood, Texas where the sign had
>>> regular for 12.9 cents per gallon in the mid '50s before the
>>> federal tax was passed.
>> 
>> Are you sure about the dates?  I started driving around 1949
>> (legally in 1951) and I seem to recall there was federal tax then.
> 
> I looked here:
> http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/1054.html
> 
> Federal tax began in 1932 apparently.

I must be thinking of the tax Eisenhower got through to pay for the
interstate system.  Am I engaging in selective memory, or did $0.25 to
$0.30 gas persist into the later '60s?

Time for liars, damned liars and statistics:  determine the marginal
profit
per gallon for both the major oil companies and retail sellers now and in
1965 - you might need a log scale to be able to display the current margin
on the same graph.

-- 
Will Honea
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